Contents: Specifications for all Models; The Fury of the BSA; Moto-Crossers ride the dyno; The Parade of ’71’s; On the trail of the 125’s; Accessory Catalog; Motorcycle Sport Quarterly, the Buyer’s Guide edition specifically, is dedicated to solving any and all perplexities regarding your introduction to the sport of motorcycling. If the answer isn’t to be found somewhere in the tediously compiled charts of specifications or seat-of-the-pants commentary of one of our many tests…192 pages, softcover, condition: very good

Presents all pertinent facts, specifications, prices and other related data on the new models of 35 (count ’em) different manufacturers. Covers many topics of interest to motorcyclists – riding tips, financing, insurance, legislation, protective riding apparel, accessories, comparative dyno tests of six fire-breathing 750cc musclebikes, plus a minibike section. Another chapter is on special custom built machines; and there’s a far-out pictorial display of bikes from around the world – whatever your two-wheeled kick, Motorcyclist Buyer’s Guide is here to bring you hours of pleasurable, informative reading.

1972 Motorcycle Buyer’s Guide by Bob Greene and the Editors of Motorcyclist Magazine available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

Cover: This rider accommodates his split personality with a Honda CB350 Super Sport streeter for touring and the SL Motosport version of the same machine for trailing. Knobby tires and a 21-inch front wheel on the SL show his serious side.

Published in 1981. Editorial: …Rather than settle for less motorcycle than you really want, why not select a good used bike, and, if you need more performance, set it up with aftermarket gear so it will perform as well as the latest? That’s the purpose of this book. We tell you what we think the good machines are, and suggest reasonable prices for them. We select a number to reprise in reprinted tests and a few more for special update attention. We also tell you how to care for your bike to make sure it always runs as well as it can, and offer some examples of what you can do to an old bike if you’re willing to go all-out in performance and custom modifying. If you’d like to do that anyway, you’d be wasting your money to buy a new bike to metamorphose. Every motorcycle in this book is a good buy, even if you keep it stock. You won’t find any bombs, like Yamaha’s ill-fated TX750 twin, which wasn’t right when the factory put it out…nor will you find any mention of those Eastern European slugs that occasionally turn up in the classifieds for unbelievably low prices. You’ll only find the best bikes of the decade and the best information available on how they changed, how to fix them up and how to take care of them. If you already own one of these machines you’ll discover a wealth of information on how to keep it forever young and faithful to you…

This book is full of information including complete catalogs of all lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight motorcycles of the time including mini-bikes, showing photos, descriptions and prices of all the bikes. There is much more in this book including:

Book Contents: Hot on the trail; Inner Sanctum; Indian Uprising!; You wanted a four?; Yankee with a Latin twist; Lightweight Catalog; The Bucket Brigade; Testing Japan’s Three New Scramblers; Lightweight Accessories; Stunt Man; Fancy This!; Dytch’s Dreadful Strokers; Middleweight Catalog; How to do the enduro; Bushwhacker; Touring Accessories; The Chassis Revolution; Death Valley Bound; Heavyweight Catalog; The Power to Stop; The only race in the world; The Powerplant; Racing Accesories; Big Bad Baja; Group Therapy

About the author:

Bob Greene was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2007.

Nicknamed “The Old Greenhorner,” Bob Greene gained national recognition as the editor of both Cycle and Motorcyclist magazines. He went on to publish numerous books on motorcycling. Throughout his life, Greene also regularly competed in desert racing events, speed trials, and scrambles. From the 1940s through the late 1960s, Greene was the chief organizer of the prestigious Greenhorn Enduro.